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Yet listen to the artless babble of the Blind Mullah of Jagai, the priest of the Khusru Kheyl, sitting upon a rock overlooking the Border. Five years before, a chance-hurled shell from a screw-gun battery had dashed earth in the face of the Mullah, then urging a rush of Ghazis against half a dozen British bayonets. So he became blind, and hated the English none the less for the little accident.
They will feed after the moon goes down in the four border villages issuing from the Jagai pass on the next night. Then in English round hand 'Your sincere friend. 'Good man! said Tallantire. 'That's Khoda Dad Khan's work, I know. It's the only piece of English he could ever keep in his head, and he is immensely proud of it.
But some say, and among these be the Gurkhas who watched on the hillside, that that battle was won by Jakin and Lew, whose little bodies were borne up just in time to fit two gaps at the head of the big ditch-grave for the dead under the heights of Jagai. When the Devil rides on your chest remember the chamar. Native Proverb.
But some say, and among these be the Goorkhas who watched on the hillside, that that battle was won by Jakin and Lew, whose little bodies were borne up just in time to fit two gaps at the head of the big ditch-grave for the dead under the heights of Jagai. Gloriana! The Don may attack us Whenever his stomach be fain; He must reach us before he can rack us . . . And where are the galleons of Spain?
'Good man, but too weak for frontier work; and he doesn't understand the priests. The blind priest at Jagai will bear watching. You'll find it in my papers, in the uniform-case, I think. Call the Khusru Kheyl men up; I'll hold my last public audience. Khoda Dad Khan! The leader of the men sprang to the side of the litter, his companions following.
You won't do it. G. Hang it, a man has some duties towards his family, I suppose. M. I remember a man, though, who told me, the night after Amdheran, when we were picketed under Jagai, and he'd left his sword by the way, did you ever pay Ranken for that sword? in an Utmanzai's head that man told me that he'd stick by me and the Pinks as long as he lived.
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